Dianne Wiest

A comedy about a mild-mannered accountant whose dreams of being a supercop come to life when his suburban home is used for an extended stake-out.

The mother of a young genius wants him to have a regular life while an educator sees him as a special case, not a child.

LIFE IN PIECES is a comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child MATT may have just found his true love, his co-worker COLLEEN; his coddled, youngest brother GREG and his wife JEN are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, HEATHER, and her husband TIM are dreading their impending empty...

Follows a therapist and five sets of his patients as they struggle with their relationships and inner selves.

Gripped by wild radio stories about wars and beautiful celebrities, 10-year-old Joe Needleman longs for adventure and dreams of the day he'll see enemy spies, German subs - or even his sexy grade-school teacher wearing a smile (and little else). But while Joe's life is filled with fantasies about radio voices, the real people behind the voices have fantasies of their own. And as stars rise, careers fall and a nation hurtles toward the future, only...

Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the frightening incident leaves a lasting trauma not only on Grace but also on her horse, Pilgrim. Grace's mother, seeking Grace's recovery, feels there's a link between...

A look at three sisters and the relationship they have with one another, and with the men in their lives.

The Buckmans are a modern family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the "right" way.

Along the Irish seacoast, the floating lighthouse called the Blackwater Lightship once symbolized happy times for this family. But that was long before tragedy struck and misunderstandings mounted between three generatioins of women. Granny (Lansbury), her daughter Lily (Wiest) and the granddaughter Helen (Gina McKee) have barely spoken for a decade. The silence is about to broken, however, when Granny's ailing grandson (Lily's son) returns to the...

A fatherless teen-age boy from Chicago, who likes to dance, tries to shake up his new small midwestern hometown of Bomont, which doesn't allow public dancing. Bomont's Baptist minister is a staunch supporter of the ban on public dancing, but has a "loose" teenage daughter in high school who doesn't share his views on the ban. The two teenagers develop a mutual affection for each other and fight the town's ban on dancing in order to have a high school...